"God allows these tests"

Evaluation of the past is the first step toward vision for the future.
Chris Widener
There is one thing about the past that almost everyone can agree with…”you won’t pay a plug nickel for the million dollar experiences”…you had to endure. We can think of many as an individual…and some as a couple, which we are not proud of and some have left their mark.
Here’s the deal though…are we going to be a victim of them or a victor over them? We choose to be victors. Another one-liner I’ve seen says, “A great Marriage consists of a couple forgiving each other many times every day” and I’d submit at least for me (Jim) at times, it can be many.
1 John 1:9 has the key to unlocking healing and victory over failures and the enemy. Keeping accounts short with your spouse (and everyone else for that matter) when these happen, is the key.
Here’s another address to look at: Revelation 12:11, stating “we overcome by the Blood of the Lamb and the word of our testimony”.
Maybe God allows these tests, so that others will see how we handle ourselves while going through them. Then again, for us to gain a deeper experience, so that we will see how the Lord might use what we have gone, or are going through, to create vision for us about how He wants to use us and our testimony to minister to others in the future.
These can be those first baby steps for us to evaluate what God wants to do with us. It would be such a waste if the trails were, just for our benefit only. Others are watching you and seeing how you do, and if we can keep that in focus, then others can benefit from our mistakes and our victories and the future looks brighter for us and them, because we were willing to share, and give God the Glory through them.
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